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Advanced condition monitoring of tapered roller bearings, part1

Significance of output:

Rolling element bearings are one of the most common engineering components used and their health is critical to the operation of most machinery. This paper reflects collaboration between Southampton, GE and Tribotex (Japan) to detect early deterioration of rolling element bearings and wear debris detection in bearing lubrication systems. Innovative multisensor health monitoring approaches are used and gave significantly more warning of failure than conventional techniques, Honor.Powrie@ge.com will verify. This work has led to additional £200k+ income for research into health monitoring of wind turbine bearings and new all ceramic bearings and 2 PhD studentships and a knowledge transfer fellowship.